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Good Sunday Fam! Live from Raymond James Stadium for the final time in 2014, it’s Team Ledger bringing you the Tampa Bay Bucs against the New Orleans Saints. Giving you the Team Ledger coverage today will be Rick Brown (@LedgeronBucs), Brady Fredericksen (@Brady_Fred) and Dick Scanlon (no Twitter but he’s thinking of ya). Hope everyone is having a great holiday season, thus far. This is the final game of the season for both squads. The Bucs are 2-13 this season… Read More »

This is another game the Tampa Bay Bucs will be thinking about once this season is over. It was a game that was winnable but an 11-point fourth-quarter lead was blown, then the team fell in overtime. Here is the Good, Bad and Ugly from this game: THE GOOD Wide receiver Vincent Jackson: Yeah, he had a drop but his eight catches for 144 yards were all huge. And let’s remember, he’s still playing with a hurt hand so any… Read More »

Despite coming off their first victory of the season, the Tampa Bay Bucs find themselves just one game out of first place in the NFC South. Wow! That’s why this Sunday’s game against the New Orleans Saints is critical. But more on that in a bit. Injury Update The Bucs had some injuries that are sure to affect the team in the short future. First, wide receiver Mike Evans suffered a groin injury in Sunday’s win against Pittsburgh. The thing… Read More »

Tampa Bay will be without defensive end Da’Quan Bowers and could be without safety Mark Barron and linebacker Dekoda Watson because of injuries when the team plays its final game Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. For the Bucs, this isn’t the time to be missing your defensive guys. The Saints are not only undefeated at home (7-0) this season but are scoring 33 points per game in the Superdome. With the Saints needing this game to make the playoffs,… Read More »

Future Hall of Fame quarterbacks Drew Brees of New Orleans and Tom Brady of New England have different opinions on Tampa Bay safety Dashon Goldson. Brees thinks Goldson is dirty. Brady admires Goldson’s play. Goldson was fined an NFL-record tying $100,000 for hitting New Orleans running back Darren Sproles in Sunday’s 16-14 Saints win. The safety was originally suspended for a game but had his suspension overturned and was fined instead. Brees, of course, didn’t like it. “I know it’s… Read More »

With so much negative swirling, let’s look at some positive things that happened during Tampa Bay’s 16-14 loss Sunday to the New Orleans Saints: Before the final drive, Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees had thrown for a modest 268 yards, one touchdown and was picked off twice. That’s pretty good considering Brees normally torches the team for 350+ Running back Doug Martin rushed for 144 yards. This is coming off of the first game where he only had 65 and he… Read More »

It’s been a minute but good Sunday Fam! Live from Raymond James Stadium, it’s the Tampa Bay Bucs hosting their NFC South rival New Orleans Saints. A packed house is expected for today’s afternoon tilt. The Saints enter the game 1-0 after defeating the Atlanta Falcons 23-17 in the opener. Tampa Bay is 0-1 after losing on the road to the New York Jets 18-17. This hasn’t been a smooth week in Buc Land off the field for quarterback Josh… Read More »

Good Sunday Fam! Live from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, it’s your favorite reporter (or at least one of em) live on the scene covering today’s NFC South tilt between the Tampa Bay Bucs and the New Orleans Saints. The Bucs (6-7) will try to snap a season-high four-game losing streak. The Saints (5-8) have lost three straight and look to avoid their second four-game losing streak. New Orleans started the season 0-4. The Saints also look to sweep the Bucs for… Read More »

Here are some quotes from the Tampa Bay Bucs’ 35-28 loss Sunday to the New Orleans Saints: Tampa Bay safety Ronde Barber, who picked off his 46th career interception in the first quarter: “We stayed in it, fought, tried to win. Gave ourselves a chance, which we’ve done in all of our losses, unfortunately or fortunately, depending on how you look at it. Yeah, it’s a tad frustrating. You do enough in some areas, certainly not enough in a lot… Read More »

Good Morning Fam! It is absolutely beautiful day here at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa for this NFC South divisional contest between the Tampa Bay Bucs and the New Orleans Saints. Don’t adjust your TV screens, this is 2012 and live. But yes, the Bucs are wearing their throwback uniforms. Orange jerseys with white helmets featuring Bucco Bruce and white pants. Even the cheerleaders will have on throwback unis with big pom poms. The Saints will be a bit retro… Read More »